History PlayingWith / LeanAndMean

* Overlord Smith is drawn as a stick figure among the otherwise normal cast.
* Overlord Smith is so underweight that he weighs that same as he did when he was born.

* '''Parodied''': Overlord Smith is drawn as a stick figure among the otherwise normal cast.

* '''Exaggerated''': Overlord Smith is [[NothingButSkinAndBones so thin that he should be dead of starvation]], but he doesn't seem to suffer from it.

** Overlord Smith is {{Affably|Evil}} LawfulEvil NobleDemon for a skinny lad.

** For exaggerated: they wanted to give him a skeletal look to make him look extra creepy.

** Smith is very skinny [if looking a bit underweight] and a {{Nice Guy}}

* '''Averted''': Overlord Smith has an average weight.

* '''Defied''': Even though he's now an EvilOverlord, Smith knows it's healthiest to mantain a healthy weight, and makes sure to do so.

* '''Implied''': Smith is a creepy thin guy, but he is only AmbiguouslyEvil.

'''Basic Trope''': An evil character is very thin.

* '''Exaggerated''': Overlord Smith is so thin that he should be dead of starvation, but he doesn't seem to suffer from it.

* '''Exploited''': TheBigGuy easily {{Neck Lift}}s Overlord Smith.

* '''Played For Drama''': Overlord Smith's evil originated from needing to prove his masculinity to muscular JerkJocks that bullied him.
* '''Implied''': Smith is a creepy thin guy, but he is only AmbigouslyEvil.

** Overlord Smith realizes that failing health will not help him accomplish WorldDomination, so he adopts healthy eating habits.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': Overlord Smith isn't unusually skinny, but he's fairly toned and slender.

** For exaggerated: they wanted to give him a skeletal look to him look extra creepy.

* '''Enforced''': They wanted a VillainousGlutton character, but obesity campaigners protested.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Overlord Smith's JewishMother [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas lives with him]], and interrupts a dramatic confrontation with the protagonists to [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage nudzh]] him to eat some noodle kugel, claiming she can see daylight through him. "And, what, you weren't going to let me meet your new friends? They can have some too."

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Overlord Smith spends so long obsessing over his evil scheme that he never eats; his health is affected dramatically and he begins to suffer from SanitySlippage.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Overlord Smith realizes that failing health will not help him accomplish WorldDomination, so he adopts healthy eating habits.
** Being a beanpole is just Overlord Smith's natural build. He eats well, but his metabolism burns everything it gets.

* '''Enforced''': They wanted a VillainousGlutton character, but obesity campaigners protested.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''':
%%* '''Played For Laughs''':
%%* '''Played For Drama''':

* '''Inverted''': VillainousGlutton
** Alternatively, TheHero Will is very skinny.
* '''Subverted''': Overlord Smith was thin in his first appearance, but it turns out he'd just been through a long and difficult journey where food was scarce. Soon, he returns to a normal weight.

* '''Double Subverted''': Even though it's been months after that near-starvation incident, Overlord Smith stays as thin as he first was.

* '''Reconstructed''': Overlord Smith realizes that failing health will not help him accomplish WorldDomination, so he adopts healthy eating habits.

* '''Reconstructed''': ???